Ben Mellman

Mage 16ILMIUN-03Y2K

28 plausible swims · 5 meets · 2024-07-13 → 2025-11-02

Personal records

Event	Course	Best	Cut	Date	Meet
50 Freestyle	SCY	24.42	BB+0.03s to A	2025-07-20	2025 ISI Summer ACAD Regional venue
100 Freestyle	SCY	52.88	A+1.59s to AA	2025-11-02	2025 Holland Fall Invite venue
200 Freestyle	SCY	1:53.24	A+1.25s to AA	2025-07-20	2025 ISI Summer ACAD Regional venue
500 Freestyle	SCY	5:24.53	BB+7.04s to A	2025-10-31	2025 Holland Fall Invite venue
100 Backstroke	SCY	59.03	BB+0.94s to A	2025-07-20	2025 ISI Summer ACAD Regional venue
200 Backstroke	SCY	2:08.81	BB+1.52s to A	2025-07-19	2025 ISI Summer ACAD Regional venue
200 Individual Medley	SCY	2:10.79	BB+1.10s to A	2025-11-02	2025 Holland Fall Invite venue
400 Individual Medley	SCY	4:59.84	BB+22.15s to A	2024-11-02	2024 Holland Fall Invite slow pool
200 Backstroke	LCM	2:31.28	BB+3.59s to A	2025-07-31	2025 LC Illinois Senior Championships

Cuts are USA Swimming single-age motivational standards (B → AAAA) at age 16.

Pool tags are a venue speed heuristic (median deviation of all swims there vs each swimmer's typical time) — see the venue page for the method.

Fastest relay legs

Leg	Course	Time	Start	Relay	Date	Meet
50 Backstroke	SCY	29.34	flat	200 Medley Relay	2024-07-13	2024 IL SCST Summer Regional Championships
50 Backstroke	LCM	32.87	flat	200 Medley Relay	2025-08-03	2025 LC Illinois Senior Championships
100 Backstroke	LCM	1:09.07	flat	400 Medley Relay	2025-08-02	2025 LC Illinois Senior Championships

Reconstructed from relay split marks. Flat = lead-off (comparable to individual times); flying starts run ~0.5–0.7s fast and are not PRs.

IMX / IMR

IMX 15-16 · SCY

2422 points (4/6 events — incomplete)

Event	Time	Points
500 FR SCY	5:24.53	617
200 BK SCY	2:08.81	634
200 IM SCY	2:10.79	648
400 IM SCY	4:59.84	523
200 BR SCY	—	0
200 FL SCY	—	0

IMR 15-16 · SCY

2011 points (3/5 events — incomplete)

Event	Time	Points
200 FR SCY	1:53.24	730
100 BK SCY	59.03	633
200 IM SCY	2:10.79	648
100 BR SCY	—	0
100 FL SCY	—	0

Scored against AAAA motivational base times: ordering is exact, absolute points run ~25% above the official USA Swimming scale.

PR splits

100 Freestyle SCY 52.88

25.63

27.25

Front half 25.63s · back half 27.25s

200 Freestyle SCY 1:53.24

26.72

28.62

29.28

28.62

Front half 55.34s · back half 57.90s

500 Freestyle SCY 5:24.53

27.96

31.24

32.11

33.14

33.23

33.51

34.05

33.73

33.57

31.99

Front half 157.68s · back half 166.85s

100 Backstroke SCY 59.03

28.88

30.15

Front half 28.88s · back half 30.15s

200 Backstroke SCY 2:08.81

31.82

32.39

32.66

31.94

Front half 64.21s · back half 64.60s

200 Individual Medley SCY 2:10.79

28.06

32.01

40.13

30.59

Front half 60.07s · back half 70.72s

400 Individual Medley SCY 4:59.84

30.01

34.52

35.75

35.68

46.52

47.09

36.05

34.22

Front half 135.96s · back half 163.88s

Reaction time

fastest 0.74s average 0.740s slowest 0.74s 1 electronic start

From electronically-timed starts only (~2% of corpus swims carry a reaction time). PRs with a recorded reaction show an RT chip in the splits section above.

Progression

Faster times are higher. One card per event, all courses & history.

50 Freestyle SCY 24.42 3 swims

100 Freestyle SCY 52.88 3 swims

200 Freestyle SCY 1:53.24 4 swims

500 Freestyle SCY 5:24.53 3 swims

100 Backstroke SCY 59.03 4 swims

200 Backstroke SCY 2:08.81 4 swims

200 Individual Medley SCY 2:10.79 3 swims

400 Individual Medley SCY 4:59.84 1 swim

200 Backstroke LCM 2:31.28 3 swims